It Is But A Truism That Labor

The Word Capital, As Philologists Trace It, Comes Down To Us From A Time When Wealth Was Estimated In Cattle, And A Man's Income Depended Upon The Number Of Head He Could Keep For Their Increase.

It Is But A Truism That Labor Is Most Productive Where Its Wages Are Largest. Poorly Paid Labor Is Inefficient Labor, The World Over.

At The Beginning Of This Marvelous Era It Was Natural To Expect, And It Was Expected, That Laborsaving Inventions Would Lighten The Toil And Improve The Condition Of The Laborer; That The Enormous Increase In The Power Of Producing Wealth Would Make Real Poverty A Thing Of The Past... From Progress And Poverty, To Those Who, Seeing The Vice And Misery That Spring From The Unequal Distribution Of Wealth And Privilege, Feel The Possibility Of A Higher Social State And Would Strive For Its Attainment.

When We Consider That Labor Is The Producer Of All Wealth, Is It Not Evident That The Impoverishment And, Dependence Of Labor Are Abnormal Conditions Resulting From Restrictions And Usurpations, And That Instead Of Accepting Protection, What Labor Should Demand Is Freedom. That Those Who Advocate Any Extension Of Freedom Choose To Go No Further Than Suits Their Own Special Purpose Is No Reason Why Freedom Itself Should Be Distrusted.

Liberty Calls To Us Again. We Must Follow Her Further; We Must Trust Her Fully. Either We Must Wholly Accept Her Or She Will Not Stay. It Is Not Enough That Men Should Vote; It Is Not Enough That They Should Be Theoretically Equal Before The Law. They Must Have Liberty To Avail Themselves Of The Opportunities And Means Of Life; They Must Stand On Equal Terms With Reference To The Bounty Of Nature.